New TwoMorrows mag

[dan bailey]

Apologies if it's been mentioned before & I missed it, but I noticed a link of Facebook a few days ago to an upcoming new TwoMorrows title that's right up quite a few of our alleys -- Comic Book Creator, edited by Jon Cooke, who helmed the fine & much-missed Comic Book Artist for those guys a few years back. (Oddly enough, even though I'm on TwoMorrows' email list, I've seen nothing else about it ... though maybe that one wound up in my spam folder or something, or I accidentally deleted it.)

Previews can be accessed here.

The covers --





Description of the zine & of the first issue --

TwoMorrows is proud to debut our newest magazine, COMIC BOOK CREATOR #1 (84 FULL-COLOR pages, $8.95) devoted to the work and careers of the men and women who draw, write, edit, and publish comics, focusing always on the artists and not the artifacts, the creators and not the characters. Behind an ALEX ROSS cover painting, our frantic FIRST ISSUE features an investigation of the oft despicable treatment JACK KIRBY endured from the very business he helped establish. From being cheated out of royalties in the ’40s and bullied in the ’80s by the publisher he made great, to his estate’s current fight for equitable recognition against an entertainment monolith where his characters have generated billions of dollars, we present Kirby’s cautionary tale in the eternal struggle for creator’s rights. Plus, CBC #1 interviews artist ALEX ROSS and writer KURT BUSIEK, spotlights the last years of writer/artist FRANK ROBBINS, remembers comics historian LES DANIELS, talks to TODD McFARLANE about his new show-all book, showcases a joint talk between NEAL ADAMS and DENNIS O’NEIL on their unforgettable collaborations, as well as throws a whole kit’n’caboodle of other creator-centric items atcha! Join us for the start of a new era as TwoMorrows welcomes back former Comic Book Artist editor Jon B. Cooke, who helms the all-new, all-color COMIC BOOK CREATOR!

Now I'm wondering if Cei-U! penned that Frank Robbins piece just to raise my blood pressure ... If so, I'll be getting started shortly on my Jack Sparling appreciation.

[SUPERECWFAN1]

Apologies if it's been mentioned before & I missed it, but I noticed a link of Facebook a few days ago to an upcoming new TwoMorrows title that's right up quite a few of our alleys -- Comic Book Creator, edited by Jon Cooke, who helmed the fine & much-missed Comic Book Artist for those guys a few years back. (Oddly enough, even though I'm on TwoMorrows' email list, I've seen nothing else about it ... though maybe that one wound up in my spam folder or something, or I accidentally deleted it.)

Previews can be accessed here.

The covers --





Description of the zine & of the first issue --

TwoMorrows is proud to debut our newest magazine, COMIC BOOK CREATOR #1 (84 FULL-COLOR pages, $8.95) devoted to the work and careers of the men and women who draw, write, edit, and publish comics, focusing always on the artists and not the artifacts, the creators and not the characters. Behind an ALEX ROSS cover painting, our frantic FIRST ISSUE features an investigation of the oft despicable treatment JACK KIRBY endured from the very business he helped establish. From being cheated out of royalties in the ’40s and bullied in the ’80s by the publisher he made great, to his estate’s current fight for equitable recognition against an entertainment monolith where his characters have generated billions of dollars, we present Kirby’s cautionary tale in the eternal struggle for creator’s rights. Plus, CBC #1 interviews artist ALEX ROSS and writer KURT BUSIEK, spotlights the last years of writer/artist FRANK ROBBINS, remembers comics historian LES DANIELS, talks to TODD McFARLANE about his new show-all book, showcases a joint talk between NEAL ADAMS and DENNIS O’NEIL on their unforgettable collaborations, as well as throws a whole kit’n’caboodle of other creator-centric items atcha! Join us for the start of a new era as TwoMorrows welcomes back former Comic Book Artist editor Jon B. Cooke, who helms the all-new, all-color COMIC BOOK CREATOR!

Now I'm wondering if Cei-U! penned that Frank Robbins piece just to raise my blood pressure ... If so, I'll be getting started shortly on my Jack Sparling appreciation.

That does sound pretty awesome...is there a link where you can subscribe monthly ? Maybe at a cheaper rate than the $8.95 price. This and Back Issue make me really wanna get these books to read.

[dan bailey]

Apparently, it's going to be a quarterly -- 4-issue sub is $36. That includes, though, what's planned as a double-sized (& -priced) summer issue.

[SUPERECWFAN1]

Apparently, it's going to be a quarterly -- 4-issue sub is $36. That includes, though, what's planned as a double-sized (& -priced) summer issue.

Thanks for the info man. I may just try the #1 to see if its too my liking. I wonder if they have this for Back Issue and what the shipping is for it.

[dan bailey]

Back Issue & Alter Ego subs are 8 issues for $60. I'd like 'em to be cheaper, but no doubt that would require substantially larger circulation, & of course such mags are pretty much the definition of niche publications.

And of course high-priced contributors like Cei-U! have to be maintained in the lavish if not indeed downright decadent lifestyles to which they've become accustomed, too.

[Cherokee Jack]

Now I'm wondering if Cei-U! penned that Frank Robbins piece just to raise my blood pressure ... If so, I'll be getting started shortly on my Jack Sparling appreciation.

Hey, I pre-ordered this BECAUSE of the Frank Robbins article.


Truthfully, how much more can O'Neil and Adams have to say about GL/GA, that hasn't been said umpteen times?

[berk]

Now I'm wondering if Cei-U! penned that Frank Robbins piece just to raise my blood pressure ...

It's the cover by the ever-annoying Alex Ross that's more likely to send mine through the ceiling.

[dan bailey]

The Ross cover isn't exactly a plus for me, either, though at least he's not trying to convey action or story, to name two things he's either utterly unable to accomplish or uninterested in attempting. The irony of Mr. Statue rendering a cover of Mr. Dynamism is intriguingly ironic in concept, I guess.

[dan bailey]

Hey, I pre-ordered this BECAUSE of the Frank Robbins article.


Truthfully, how much more can O'Neil and Adams have to say about GL/GA, that hasn't been said umpteen times?

My gibe aside, I agree -- the Robbins article should be interesting; he's a guy you don't read much about. And yeah, O'Neil-Adams Installment 1,461 promises to be as riveting & revelatory as watching Alex Ross' paints dry.

[benday-dot]

I was going to post on this since I first learned of it a few months back, but laziness kept me from doing so... so thank you dutiful Dan.

I am pretty interested in checking out this book, not only for the Kirby, Kubert and Robbins pieces, but especially for the return of Jon B. Cooke to the Twomorrows fold in a significant capacity. No disrespect to Michael Eury and Back Issue, but Cooke is, in my mind, one of the best writers about comics in the business and his interviews are a real joy read.

[dan bailey]

I was going to post on this since I first learned of it a few months back, but laziness kept me from doing so... so thank you dutiful Dan.

Months ago? Now I'm dy8ng to know what other big news items you might have been sitting on all this time ...

[benday-dot]

Months ago? Now I'm dy8ng to know what other big news items you might have been sitting on all this time ...

Oh nothing more really, though there was something about a Brother the Freak or Geek or something like that. Some long lost issue uncovered sort of thing. Nothing you would really be interested in.

[JKCarrier]

Looks cool. One of the things I liked about COMIC BOOK ARTIST was that it featured indy and underground comics in addition to the mainstream stuff. Hopefully that'll be the case here, too.

[hondobrode]

Hallelujah ! I've long lamented the demise of CBA and this sounds very similar. I never tire of the zines esp TwoMorrows, the best ever.

Thanks Dazzling Dan and Snappy Cei-U !

[verslibre]

I guess I can stop holding my breath for the snowball's-chance-in-hell of CBA returning. These new books look fuckindamnedcool. TwoMorrows does it again.